Asan Abdieva was born in 1907 in the village of Kara-Saz (now this is the rural district of Ormon Khan) in the family of Abdy Supa uulu, who belonged to the kushchu clan. Asan's father, according to various sources, was born around 1860 and was a well-off man during the time of Ormon Khan Niyazbek uulu. According to local residents, when his sheep grazed on the slopes, "the mountain was not visible." Abdy was a man of moderate means and raised seven sons, among whom Asan was the third.
When Asan was nine years old, he experienced the tragic events of 1916, known as "Ürkün." Together with his family, he was forced to flee to China, where many who traveled on foot died from hunger and hardships. A year later, the family returned home, but of the seven brothers, only three were able to return — Samat, Sadyk, and Asan himself. Some older brothers died in Kashgar, and two younger ones went missing. In 1917-1918, Asan lost his father, becoming an orphan at a young age.
After the establishment of Soviet power, Asan's older brother Sadyk went to study in Tashkent. In 1922, when Asan was accepted into the preparatory class of the Institute of Public Education at the Central Asian Communist University, he was only 15 years old.
Researcher Bakyt Asanov notes that at this educational institution, Asan was supported by the Russian educator Pyotr Kuzmich Yudakhin, who treated him like a son. Pyotr Kuzmich was the older brother of Konstantin Kuzmich Yudakhin, who later became a well-known compiler of Kyrgyz-Russian and Russian-Kyrgyz dictionaries.
In 1924, at a plenum of the Turkestan Central Executive Committee, it was decided to train teachers for the small ethnic groups, including the Kara-Kyrgyz and Tajiks. That same year, the creation of the Institute of Public Education in Kyrgyzstan began, with Pyotr Kuzmich Yudakhin as its director.
In the fall of that year, after the establishment of the Kara-Kyrgyz Autonomous Region, Yudakhin arrived in Pishpek, where he bought an unfinished house and prepared it for a dormitory and cafeteria. On September 25, 1925, the Kyrgyz Institute of Public Education was officially opened.
Asan studied at the Central Asian Communist University until 1925, after which he became one of the first 140 students at the institute in Pishpek, where he studied for four years and became an excellent student. His classmates included future prominent figures in culture and literature, such as Mukai Elebaev and Kasymaly Zhantošev.
After graduating from the institute, Asan began working as an inspector in the district department of public education in Balykchy and joined the Communist Party. He headed the education departments in the Alamudun and Karakol districts, making significant contributions to the educational system of the republic.
Asan married Nurchan, and in 1932, they had a daughter, Roza. Nurchan was remembered by her contemporaries for her long hair, braided into two plaits.
In 1937, during the Stalinist repressions, Asan and his brother Sadyk were arrested on charges of belonging to the "Turan" party. Asan ended up in prison with Törökul Aitmatov and was later sent to Siberia to work in logging. Sadyk was exiled to Magadan.
Nurchan, left with their daughter, tried to free her husband by going to Moscow for a personal meeting with the authorities. After her persistent appeals, Asan's case was reviewed, and he was acquitted. However, Sadyk, unfortunately, died in the camp in 1947.
At the end of 1938, Asan returned to work, heading the education department in the Jumgal district, but after his arrest, he was expelled from the party and, despite his rehabilitation, was not reinstated, stating his dislike for the party that sent him to Siberia without due process.
During World War II, he worked as a school director in the collective farm "Iliktir." Asan organized assistance for the elderly, involved students in writing letters to soldiers at the front, and participated in the fight against illiteracy among the adult population.
After Nurchan's death, Asan raised his daughter alone. Later, he started a family with Aina Gul Subankul kyzy, but she passed away early. In his third marriage, he had a daughter, Saltanat.
Asan Abdieva held positions as a school director, head of education departments in Naryn and Jumgal, and also taught history and geography. In his later years, he dreamed of meeting Chyngyz Aitmatov to talk about his father Törökul, but this meeting never took place.
Asan Abdieva passed away on February 20, 1984, and was buried in the village of Jangy-Jol in the Kochkor district. His children became teachers, doctors, and engineers, and, according to local residents, he raised an entire generation of students, many of whom fondly remember their mentor.
